Martin Kern
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3829478 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Martin Kern |
| NOMBRES | Martin |
| APELLIDO | Kern |
| FIRMA | KERN M |
| AFILIACIONES | Princeton University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Cultural Memory and the Epic in Early Chinese Literature
The present essay combines the theory of Cultural Memory with ideas about textual repertoires, composite text, and distributed authorship that in recent years have been advanced in studies of early and medieval Chinese literature. In its first part, the essay introduces in detail the historical development and key features of Cultural Memory theory. In its second part, it applies this theory to the study of Qu Yuan 屈原 and the Lisao 離騷, the greate…
“Xi Shuai” 蟋蟀 (“Cricket”) and Its Consequences
The present article explores questions about the composition, performance, circulation, and transmission of early Chinese poetry by examining a small number of poems from the received Mao shi and their counterparts in recently discovered manuscripts. Starting from a close examination of the poem “Xi shuai” (“Cricket”), the essay briefly discusses the problems we face in dealing with looted manuscripts before advancing toward rethinking the patter…
Confucius and the Analects Revisited
Edited by Michael Hunter and Martin Kern and featuring contributions by preeminent scholars of early China, Confucius and the Analects Revisited: New Perspectives on Composition, Dating, and Authorship critically examines the long-standing debates surrounding the history of the Analects, for two millennia considered the most authoritative source of the teachings of Confucius (551–479 BCE). Unlike most previous scholarship, it does not take the tr…
Language and the Ideology of Kingship in the “Canon of Yao”
Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy
Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy is the first book in any Western language to explore the composition, language, thought, and early history of the Shangshu (Classic of Documents), one of the pillars of the Chinese textual, intellectual, and political tradition. In examining the text from multiple disciplinary and intellectual perspectives, Origins of Chinese Political Philosophy challenges the traditional accounts of the nature and formati…
Speaking of Poetry
Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China
Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China explores ancient Chinese political thought during the centuries surrounding the formation of the empire in 221 BCE. The individual chapters examine the ideology and practices of legitimation, views of rulership, conceptualizations of ruler-minister relations, economic thought, and the bureaucratic administration of commoners. The contributors analyze the formation of power relations from vari…
The “Masters” in the Shiji
The intellectual history of the ancient philosophical “Masters” depends to a large extent on accounts in early historiography, most importantly Sima Qian’s Shiji which provides a range of longer and shorter biographies of Warring States thinkers. Yet the ways in which personal life experiences, ideas, and the creation of texts are interwoven in these accounts are diverse and uneven and do not add up to a reliable guide to early Chinese thought an…
Text and Ritual in Early China
In Text and Ritual in Early China , leading scholars of ancient Chinese history, literature, religion, and archaeology consider the presence and use of texts in religious and political ritual. Through balanced attention to both the received literary tradition and the wide range of recently excavated artifacts, manuscripts, and inscriptions, their combined efforts reveal the rich and multilayered interplay of textual composition and ritual perform…
La poésie chinoise ancienne
Pr Martin Kern © P. Imbert, Collège de France La question de l’auteur et le Classique de la poésie (Shijing) La production et la réception de la littérature chinoise traditionnelle portent la marque de forts préjugés concernant la question de l’auteur. La littérature, et tout particulièrement la poésie, a été conçue comme essentiellement autobiographique et « expressive», c’est-à-dire comme la manifestation des idées, émotions et intentions perso…
Statecraft and Classical Learning
Statecraft and Classical Learning is devoted to the Rituals of Zhou, one of the ancient Chinese Classics. In addition to its canonical stature in classical learning, the massive text was of unique significance to the pre-modern statecraft of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam where it served as the classical paradigm for government structure and was often invoked in movements of political reform. The present volume, with contributions from twelve l…
Early Chinese literature, beginnings through Western Han
The earliest evidence for the Chinese language, and for the Chinese script as its writing system, is found in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions from the site of the Late Shang (ca 1250–ca 1046 bc) royal capital near modern Anyang, located in the northernmost part of modern Henan Province. From there to the present day, a continuous line of development can be drawn for both language and script that has served the expression of Chinese literature…
Statecraft and classical learning
Introduction / Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern -- Part I. Early China -- The Zhouli as constitutional text / David Schaberg -- Offices of writing and reading in the Rituals of Zhou / Martin Kern -- The many Dukes of Zhou in early sources / Michael Nylan -- Centering the realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and early Chinese statecraft / Michael Puett -- Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Zhouli / Andrew H. Plaks -- Part II. Medieval China -- The role of t…
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
Volume 1: Introduction 1. Early Chinese literature: beginnings through Western Han Martin Kern 2. From the Eastern Han through the Western Jin (AD 25-317) David Knechtges 3. From the Eastern Jin through the Early Tang (317-649) Xiaofei Tian 4. The Cultural Tang (650-1020) Stephen Owen 5. The Northern Song (1020-1126) Ronald Egan 6. North and South: the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Michael Fuller and Shuen-fu Lin 7. Literature from the Late Ji…
Bronze Inscriptions, The Shijing And The Shangshu
By the time of the late Shang the ancestral sacrifice was the pre-eminent religious institution of the elite. By the end of the late Shang, the genealogical records extended back for twenty-one generations of ancestors who could receive regular sacrifices. This deeply felt presence of the past and orientation toward the former kings further intensified under the subsequent Western Zhou dynasty. They consist of two principal sets of texts, one tra…
The Performance Of Writing In Western Zhou China
This chapter examines the context of the early development of Chinese writing, and discusses the specific political, social, and religious circumstances in which its function of public display emerged. It focuses on the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou (ca. 1045-771 BCE), and especially on those from the Middle Western Zhou period and after. These inscriptions not only show an increasingly accentuated use of calligraphy. They also, in a wa…
Chinesische Literaturgeschichte
3.000 Jahre chinesische Literatur - dieser Band stellt die Literatur Chinas von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts dar. In einem repräsentativen Überblick werden Autoren und Werke in ihrem
The Poetry of Han Historiography
(2004). The Poetry of Han Historiography. Early Medieval China: Vol. 2004, No. 1, pp. 23-65
"Western Han Aesthetics and the Genesis of the "Fu
A Patterned Past
In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the 4th century BCE among the followers of Confucius. He contends that the coherent view of early China found in these texts is an effect of their origins and the habits of reading they impose. Rather …
Foundations of Confucian Thought
The "Biography of Sima Xiangru" and the Question of the Fu in Sima Qian's Shiji
The problem of the authenticity of certain chapters of Sima Qian's (ca. 145-ca. 86 B.C.) Shiji _`d (Records of the historian) has long been noted, beginning with the remark in Sima Qian's Hanshu l biography that ten of the one hundred and thirty chapters mentioned in Sima's outline Taishi gong zixu 5t t; were lost, having [merely] a listing but no text (you lu wu shu f;i_ ).1 In analyzing individual chapters, often through a comparison with their…
Methodological Reflections on the Analysis of Textual Variants and the Modes of Manuscript Production in Early China
Even more than other recent archaeological finds from East Asia, ancient Chinese manuscripts have ignited strong academic excitement. While much attention is focused on the philosophical interpretation of these texts, we are only beginning to explore their social circumstances and modes of production, to relate them to other tomb artifacts alongside which they were buried, and to explain their very physical appearance. Ac cording to a not uncomm…
The Stele Inscriptions of Ch'in Shih-huang
Ritual, Text, and the Formation of the Canon
The word wen X, in Xu Shen's t'tE(c. 55-c. 149) Shaowen jiezi StSF deElned as criss-cross pattern (cuohua Z),1 has been ruminatec3 upon numerous times during the last two millennia, and it is still under sophisticated deliberation wherever students of traditional Chinese culture and literature meet. This phenomenon is in itself remarkable, revealing the genuine depth of a word that in its significance is rivalled by only a few others, like dao t …
Methodological Reflections on the Analysis of Textual Variants and the Modes of Manuscript Production in Early China
Even more than other recent archaeological finds from East Asia, ancient Chinese manuscripts have ignited strong academic excitement. While much attention is focused on the philosophical interpretation of these texts, we are only beginning to explore their social circumstances and modes of production, to relate them to other tomb artifacts alongside which they were buried, and to explain their very physical appearance. Ac cording to a not uncomm…
"Western Han Aesthetics and the Genesis of the "Fu
A Patterned Past
In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the 4th century BCE among the followers of Confucius. He contends that the coherent view of early China found in these texts is an effect of their origins and the habits of reading they impose. Rather …
The "Biography of Sima Xiangru" and the Question of the Fu in Sima Qian's Shiji
The problem of the authenticity of certain chapters of Sima Qian's (ca. 145-ca. 86 B.C.) Shiji _`d (Records of the historian) has long been noted, beginning with the remark in Sima Qian's Hanshu l biography that ten of the one hundred and thirty chapters mentioned in Sima's outline Taishi gong zixu 5t t; were lost, having [merely] a listing but no text (you lu wu shu f;i_ ).1 In analyzing individual chapters, often through a comparison with their…
The Emigration of German Sinologists 1933-1945
During the times of the National Socialist regime, the great majority of the young, and also some of the well-established, German scholars in Sinology and East Asian art history left their country to continue their academic careers elsewhere, notably in the United States. The present international state of Chinese studies is hardly explainable without reference to the broad loss of expertise and creativity in Germany, on the one hand, and to the …
"A Note on the Authenticity and Ideology of Shih-chi 24, "The Book on Music
Die Hymnen der chinesischen Staatsopfer
Shi Jing Songs as Performance Texts
Focused on a detailed philological analysis of the sacrificial hymn “Chu ci” in the Shijing , the present study aims to reconstruct the dramatic multi-vocal structure of an exemplary early Chinese performance text. Examining the interrelation between performance and commemoration from anthropological, art historical, and linguistic perspectives, the study in its first part outlines major characteristics of early Chinese ritual culture in terms of…
Die Leishu der imperialen Bibliothek des Kaisers Qianlong
The Stele Inscriptions of Ch'in Shih-huang
Ritual, Text, and the Formation of the Canon
The word wen X, in Xu Shen's t'tE(c. 55-c. 149) Shaowen jiezi StSF deElned as criss-cross pattern (cuohua Z),1 has been ruminatec3 upon numerous times during the last two millennia, and it is still under sophisticated deliberation wherever students of traditional Chinese culture and literature meet. This phenomenon is in itself remarkable, revealing the genuine depth of a word that in its significance is rivalled by only a few others, like dao t …
Grundstrukturen der antikchinesischen Syntax
Methodological Reflections on the Analysis of Textual Variants and the Modes of Manuscript Production in Early China
Even more than other recent archaeological finds from East Asia, ancient Chinese manuscripts have ignited strong academic excitement. While much attention is focused on the philosophical interpretation of these texts, we are only beginning to explore their social circumstances and modes of production, to relate them to other tomb artifacts alongside which they were buried, and to explain their very physical appearance. Ac cording to a not uncomm…
"Western Han Aesthetics and the Genesis of the "Fu
A Patterned Past
In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the 4th century BCE among the followers of Confucius. He contends that the coherent view of early China found in these texts is an effect of their origins and the habits of reading they impose. Rather …
Foundations of Confucian Thought
The "Biography of Sima Xiangru" and the Question of the Fu in Sima Qian's Shiji
The problem of the authenticity of certain chapters of Sima Qian's (ca. 145-ca. 86 B.C.) Shiji _`d (Records of the historian) has long been noted, beginning with the remark in Sima Qian's Hanshu l biography that ten of the one hundred and thirty chapters mentioned in Sima's outline Taishi gong zixu 5t t; were lost, having [merely] a listing but no text (you lu wu shu f;i_ ).1 In analyzing individual chapters, often through a comparison with their…
Chinesische Literaturgeschichte
3.000 Jahre chinesische Literatur - dieser Band stellt die Literatur Chinas von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts dar. In einem repräsentativen Überblick werden Autoren und Werke in ihrem
The Poetry of Han Historiography
(2004). The Poetry of Han Historiography. Early Medieval China: Vol. 2004, No. 1, pp. 23-65
The Performance Of Writing In Western Zhou China
This chapter examines the context of the early development of Chinese writing, and discusses the specific political, social, and religious circumstances in which its function of public display emerged. It focuses on the bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou (ca. 1045-771 BCE), and especially on those from the Middle Western Zhou period and after. These inscriptions not only show an increasingly accentuated use of calligraphy. They also, in a wa…
Bronze Inscriptions, The Shijing And The Shangshu
By the time of the late Shang the ancestral sacrifice was the pre-eminent religious institution of the elite. By the end of the late Shang, the genealogical records extended back for twenty-one generations of ancestors who could receive regular sacrifices. This deeply felt presence of the past and orientation toward the former kings further intensified under the subsequent Western Zhou dynasty. They consist of two principal sets of texts, one tra…
Statecraft and Classical Learning
Statecraft and Classical Learning is devoted to the Rituals of Zhou, one of the ancient Chinese Classics. In addition to its canonical stature in classical learning, the massive text was of unique significance to the pre-modern statecraft of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam where it served as the classical paradigm for government structure and was often invoked in movements of political reform. The present volume, with contributions from twelve l…
Early Chinese literature, beginnings through Western Han
The earliest evidence for the Chinese language, and for the Chinese script as its writing system, is found in oracle bone and bronze inscriptions from the site of the Late Shang (ca 1250–ca 1046 bc) royal capital near modern Anyang, located in the northernmost part of modern Henan Province. From there to the present day, a continuous line of development can be drawn for both language and script that has served the expression of Chinese literature…
Statecraft and classical learning
Introduction / Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern -- Part I. Early China -- The Zhouli as constitutional text / David Schaberg -- Offices of writing and reading in the Rituals of Zhou / Martin Kern -- The many Dukes of Zhou in early sources / Michael Nylan -- Centering the realm: Wang Mang, the Zhouli, and early Chinese statecraft / Michael Puett -- Zheng Xuan's commentary on the Zhouli / Andrew H. Plaks -- Part II. Medieval China -- The role of t…
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature
Volume 1: Introduction 1. Early Chinese literature: beginnings through Western Han Martin Kern 2. From the Eastern Han through the Western Jin (AD 25-317) David Knechtges 3. From the Eastern Jin through the Early Tang (317-649) Xiaofei Tian 4. The Cultural Tang (650-1020) Stephen Owen 5. The Northern Song (1020-1126) Ronald Egan 6. North and South: the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Michael Fuller and Shuen-fu Lin 7. Literature from the Late Ji…
Text and Ritual in Early China
In Text and Ritual in Early China , leading scholars of ancient Chinese history, literature, religion, and archaeology consider the presence and use of texts in religious and political ritual. Through balanced attention to both the received literary tradition and the wide range of recently excavated artifacts, manuscripts, and inscriptions, their combined efforts reveal the rich and multilayered interplay of textual composition and ritual perform…
La poésie chinoise ancienne
Pr Martin Kern © P. Imbert, Collège de France La question de l’auteur et le Classique de la poésie (Shijing) La production et la réception de la littérature chinoise traditionnelle portent la marque de forts préjugés concernant la question de l’auteur. La littérature, et tout particulièrement la poésie, a été conçue comme essentiellement autobiographique et « expressive», c’est-à-dire comme la manifestation des idées, émotions et intentions perso…
Speaking of Poetry
Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China
Ideology of Power and Power of Ideology in Early China explores ancient Chinese political thought during the centuries surrounding the formation of the empire in 221 BCE. The individual chapters examine the ideology and practices of legitimation, views of rulership, conceptualizations of ruler-minister relations, economic thought, and the bureaucratic administration of commoners. The contributors analyze the formation of power relations from vari…
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